ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Pego's Page of Reason</title> <meta name="description" content="Personal opinions on great many issues."> </head> <body bgcolor="silver" text="maroon"> <p><h2 align="center">Pego's Hall of Admiration</h2> <p align="center">People that earned my reverence</p> <p align="center"><font color="teal">POLITICS - GOVERNMENT</font></p> <p><h3 align="center"><font color="red"><b><i>THOMAS JEFFERSON</b></i></h3></font> <p align="center"><font color="teal">1743 - 1826</font></p> <p align="center"> <img src="jefferson.jpg" width="87" height="101"> <p align="right"><font size="-1"font color="gray"><i>copied from www.american-pictures.com</i></font></p><br> <hr> <br> <p align="center"><font color="teal">PHILOSOPHY - LITERATURE</font></p> <p><h3 align="center"><font color="red"><b><i>FRANÇOISE - MARIE AROUET de VOLTAIRE</b></i></h3></font> <p align="center"><font color="teal">1694 - 1778</font></p> <p align="center"> <img src="voltaire1.jpg" width="93" height="110"> <p align="right"><font size="-1"font color="gray"><i>copied from academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/</i></font></p><br> <hr> <br> <p align="center"><font color="teal">SCIENCE</font></p> <p><h3 align="center"><font color="red"><b><i>CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN</b></i></h3></font> <p align="center"><font color="teal">1809  1882</font></p> <p align="center"> <img src="darwin.jpg" width="94" height="119"></p> <p align="right"><font size="-1"font color="gray"><i>copied from forums.fark.com</i></font></p><br> <hr noshade> <br> <br> <br> <p><h2 align="center">My Humble Review of the Twentieth Century</h2><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">Pego's man of the Century</font> <i><b><blockquote>ALAN TURING</b></i><br> Computing and subsequently the Internet is the greatest revolution in communication since the discovery of the printing press 500 years earlier.</blockquote></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">LITERATURE</font></p><br> <p align="left">Author: <i><b><blockquote>ANATOLE FRANCE</b></i> - <font color="navy">"when a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing".</blockquote></font><br> Humorist: <i><b><blockquote>JAROSLAV HA`EK</b></i> - Creator of good soldier `vejk (<font color="blue"> to chce klid</font> - let's stay calm).</blockquote><br> Novel<br> <br> Fiction <i><b><blockquote>MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV</i> - Quiet Don</blockquote></b><br> Popularizer of Science<i> <b><blockquote>ISAAC ASIMOV</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">DRAMA</font></p><br> Author <b><i><blockquote>FRIEDRICH DÜRENMATT</blockquote></b></i><br> Play <b><i><blockquote>LUIGI PIRANDELLO</i> - Rules of the Game</blockquote></b><br> Love story <b><i><blockquote>NAZIM HIKMET -</i> Fehrad and Sirin</blockquote></b><br> <br> <br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">MUSIC</font></p><br> <p align="left">Composer <i><b><blockquote>SERGEY RAKHMANINOV</blockquote></b></i><br> Opera/Musical <i><b><blockquote>LEONARD BERNSTEIN</i> - West Side Story</b></blockquote><br> Composition <i><b><blockquote>MAURICE RAVEL</i> - Bolero</blockquote></b><br> Composer for film (movies) <i><b><blockquote>JOHN WILLIAMS</i></blockquote></b><br> Original Film Score <i><b><blockquote>SERGEY PROKOFIEV</i> - Alexander Nevski</b></blockquote><br> Popular music <i><b><blockquote>THE BEATLES</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">CINEMA</font></p><br> <p align="left">Film <i><b><blockquote>La Grand Illusion</blockquote></b></i><br> Comedy <i><b><blockquote>It's a Mad Mad Mad World</blockquote></b></i><br> Action <i><b><blockquote>Die Hard</blockquote></b></i><br> Fantasy <i><b><blockquote>Star Wars - The series</blockquote></b></i><br> Musical <i><b><blockquote>Cabaret</blockquote></b></i><br> Horror <i><b><blockquote>The Fly</blockquote></b></i><br> Western <i><b><blockquote>Jeremiah Johnson</blockquote></b></i><br> Director <i><b><blockquote>AKIRA KUROSAWA</blockquote></b></i><br> Actor <i><b><blockquote>JEAN GABIN</blockquote></b></i><br> Actress <i><b><blockquote>KATHERINE HEPBURN</blockquote></b></i><br> Most memorable scene <i><b><blockquote>Defiant singing of La Marseillaise in Rick's Cafe Americain</i> - Casablanca</blockquote></b><br> Best one-liner (paraphrased): <b><i><blockquote>"Not only have I lost my mind, now I have lost my comb"</i>- Lois Lane in Superman II</blockquote></b></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">OTHER</font></p><br> <p align="left">Philosopher <i><b><blockquote>BERTRAND RUSSELL</blockquote></b></i><br> Educator <i><b><blockquote>JACOB BRONOWSKI</blockquote></b></i><br> Woman of the Century <i><b><blockquote>MARIE CURIE née SKLODOWSKA</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">POLITICS</font></p><br> <p align="left">Best Politician <i><b><blockquote>WINSTON CHURCHILL</blockquote></b></i><br> Dumbest Head of State <i><b><blockquote>ANTONÍN NOVOTNÝ</blockquote></b></i><br> Butchers of the Century (This category used to be divided between those still alive and those deseased. With the recent departure of the last one, I eliminated the separation of the two).<br> <i><font color="black"><blockquote>Adolf Hitler, Iosif Vissarionovi  Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Slobodan Miloaevi  </blockquote></font></i><br> <br> <br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">DISCOVERIES/INVENTIONS/EXPLORATION*</font></p><br> <p align="left">Medicine-Biology <i><b><blockquote>WATSON & CRICK - DNA</blockquote></b></i><br> Physics<br> <br> <i><b><blockquote>ALBERT EINSTEIN - The theory of relativity</blockquote></b></i><br> Technology <blockquote><i><b>Computing</blockquote></b></i><br> Greatest moment <i><b><blockquote>July 20 1969 - Man lands on the moon</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="brown">*There is a footnote at the Discoveries/Inventions/Exploration that is also applicable to practically every aspect of scientific and technological discoveries. These people happened to make the final observation that concluded a lot of already established scientific knowledge. Scientific discoveries are not made in a vacuum. The possible exception would be Gregor Mendel, a monk in the monastery who, while  playing with peas, established principles of heredity.</font></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">FOLLIES OF THE CENTURY</font></p> <br><blockquote><blockquote> <font color="navy"><i>"You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."</font></i><font color="red"><i> by ABRAHAM LINCOLN</font></i></blockquote></blockquote><p><br> <p align="left">1. Dietary and vitamin supplements for the general, well fed population.<br> 2."Alternative" medicine, especially the popularity of the non-sense chiropractic.</p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">SPORT</font></p><br> <p align="left">Athlete of the Century<br> <br> Male <i><b><blockquote>PELÈ</blockquote></b></i><br> Female <i><b><blockquote>JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <p align="left"><font color="teal">OLYMPIC GAMES</font></p> <p align="left">Greatest games <b><blockquote>Rome - 1960</blockquote></b><br> <br> Greatest Olympians<br> <br> All-time<br> <br> Male <i><b><blockquote>PAAVO NURMI</blockquote></b></i><br> Female<i><b><blockquote>IRENA SZEWINSKA née KIRSZENSTEIN</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> Summer Olympics<br> <br> Male<i><b><blockquote>MARK SPITZ - 1972</blockquote></b></i><br> Female <i><b><blockquote>FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN - 1948</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> Winter Olympics<br> <br> Male <i><b><blockquote>ERIC HEIDEN - 1980</blockquote></b></i><br> Female <i><b><blockquote>LYDIA SKOBLIKOVA - 1964</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> Most graceful athlete (poetry in motion)<br> <br> Male <i><b><blockquote>CARL LEWIS</blockquote></b></i><br> Female <i><b><blockquote>FLORENCE GRIFFITH-JOYNER</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> My personal sport hero <i><b><blockquote>EMIL ZÁTOPEK</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> Greatest Race <i><b><blockquote>Women 4X100 Freestyle Relay - 1976</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> Greatest Slovak Athlete<br> <br> Male <i><b><blockquote>ONDREJ NEPELA</blockquote></b></i><br> Female <i><b><blockquote>MARTINA MORAVCOVÁ</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> Greatest Wisconsin Athlete<br> <br> Male <i><b><blockquote>ERIC HEIDEN</blockquote></b></i><br> Female <i><b><blockquote>SUZY FAVOR-HAMILTON</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <hr noshade> <br> <br> <p><h2 align="center">My Brief Review of the Second Millennium</h2><br> <br> <p align="left">Greatest Man <i><b><blockquote>VOLTAIRE</blockquote></b></i><br> Smartest - Polyhistor/Polymath <i><b><blockquote>HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND von HELMHOLZ</blockquote></b></i><br> Author <i><b><blockquote>VICTOR HUGO</blockquote></b></i><br> Book<br> <br> Fiction <i><b><blockquote>VICTOR HUGO</i> - Les Miserables</blockquote></b><br> Non-fiction <i><b><blockquote>CHARLES DARWIN</i> - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</blockquote></b><br> Dramatic <i><b><blockquote>WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE</blockquote></b></i><br> Play <i><b><blockquote>Hamlet</blockquote></b></i><br> Poet <i><b><blockquote>ALEXANDER PUSHKIN</blockquote></b></i><br> Humorist <i><b><blockquote>MARK TWAIN</blockquote></b></i><br> Fairy Tales<i><b><blockquote>HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN</blockquote></b></i><br> Composer <i><b><blockquote>WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART</blockquote></b></i><br> Composition <i><b><blockquote>ANTONÍN DVOXÁK</i> - Cello concerto in B-minor</blockquote></b><br> Opera <i><b><blockquote>GEORGES BIZET</i> - Carmen</blockquote></b><br> Greatest Invention <i><b><blockquote>JOHAN GUTENBERG</i> - Printing Press</blockquote></b><br> Inventor <i><b><blockquote>THOMAS ALVA EDISON</blockquote></b></i><br> Discovery <i><b><blockquote>NICOLAS COPERNICUS</i> - Solar system</blockquote></b></p><br> <hr noshade> <br> <p><h2 align="center">My Personal Favorites</h2><br> <p align="left"><i>Tree <b><blockquote>MAGNOLIA</blockquote></b><br> Bush <b><blockquote>ROSE</blockquote></b><br> Flower <b><blockquote>BEGONIA</blockquote></b><br> Most spectacular sight <b><blockquote>GRAND CANYON</blockquote></b><br> Most spectacular show <b><blockquote>The USA Track & Field Olympic Trials</blockquote></b><br> Most exciting moment in sports <b><blockquote>The leader of the Olympic Marathon emerging from the stadium's tunnel.</blockquote></b><br> Best-looking woman (next to my wife) <b><blockquote>JESSICA RABBIT</blockquote></b><br> Beverage <b><blockquote>Slovak BOROVI KA (juniper brandy)</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> <b>Music</b><br> <br> <i>Style <b><blockquote>Late baroque-classical era</blockquote></b><br> Relaxing <b><blockquote>ANTONIO VIVALDI's violin concertos</blockquote></b><br> Exciting <b><blockquote>LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN; NICOLO PAGANINI</blockquote></b><br> Spiritual <b><blockquote>FRANZ SCHUBERT</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> <b>Magazines</b><br> <br> <i>Reason <b><blockquote>SKEPTICAL INQUIRER</blockquote></b><br> Popular Science: <b><blockquote>NATURAL HISTORY</blockquote></b><br> Sport <b><blockquote>TRACK & FIELD NEWS</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> <b>Authors</b><br> <br> <i>Popularizers of Science<br> <b><blockquote>STEPHEN JAY GOULD</b><br> <b>RICHARD DAWKINS</blockquote></b><br> <br> Children's books<br> <b><blockquote>JOZEF CÍGER HRONSKÝ</b><br> <b>FÉLIX SALTEN</blockquote></b><br> <br> Debunker of non-sense<br> <b><blockquote>The Amazing JAMES RANDI</blockquote></b></i><br> <br> <b>Sport Clubs</b><br> <br> <i>USA <blockquote><b>UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN BADGERS, GREEN BAY PACKERS, PITTSBURGH STEELERS, PITTSBURGH PENGUINS, MILWAUKEE BUCKS, MILWAUKEE BREWERS</blockquote></b><br> <br> Slovakia <b><blockquote>SLOVAN BRATISLAVA</blockquote></b><br> <br> My pet peeve <b><blockquote>Left lane bandits</blockquote></b></i></p><br> <br> <hr> <a href="mailto:pegospageofreason@yahoo.com"><font color="dark blue"><i>click here to e-mail me your comments</i></a></font></p><br> <hr noshade> <hr noshade> <br> <a href="Pego's Page of Reason.html"><font color="indigo">Page 1 - Introduction</font></a><br> <a href="opinions.html"><font color="indigo">Page 2 - Opinions</font></a><br> <a href="conclusion.html"><font color="indigo">Page 4 - Review 2</font></a><br> <a href="Christmas.html"><font color="indigo">Page 5 - Christmas</font></a><br> <a href=Morality.html><font color="indigo">Page 6 - Morality</font></a><br>